Wolf Creek Pass

The first album from C.W. McCall. Its full title, according to the album cover, is
Wolf Creek Pass, The Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Café (and Other Wild Places). The John Denver-esque guy on the cover, holding the chicken, is Bill Fries, the real C.W. McCall.

As the Old Home Bread commercials became regional favorites, Bill Fries wrote "Old Home Filler-up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Café", which was basically a condensation of the songs which Bill performed in the commercials. The major characters of the C.W. McCall universe are here: C.W. himself, Mavis the waitress, C.W.’s dog Sloan, and Mavis’ mother, all set in the world of the Old Home Café at which Mavis worked.

"Old Home Café" was released as a 45 RPM single on the American Gramaphone label. To everyone’s surprise, it quickly sold 30,000 copies; not bad for a record which was only available in the six-state area in which Old Home Bread was advertised.

Seeing the popularity of "Old Home Café", Bill Fries and Chip Davis created an entire album of C.W. McCall songs. These songs told of C.W. the trucker, his life, and his favorite places to be: on the road, western Iowa and southwestern Colorado. Several of the songs are autobiographical, based on events which actually ocurred to Bill Fries and his family.

On This Album

The title song, "Wolf Creek Pass", is a harrowing tale of too much descent and too little brake on a Colorado mountain pass. "Night Rider" experiences the hallucinating effects of highway hypnosis and stimulants; C.W. buys a half-ton Chevy pickup truck in "Classified"; "Old 30" is a memoir of roads past; and "I’ve Trucked All Over This Land", says C.W., "from Maine to the Rio Grande".

Special thanks to Dick Solowicz for the chicken, Mike Post (as in fence post) Glen Glenda Rena Jerry and Ron for the inspiration and to whoever owned the old building behind the car wash for the lumber..................yeah we did.